Apple's Billion-Dollar Stonewall: Our View from the EU DMA Workshop Hearing
Cryptee & OWA confront Apple at EU DMA workshop over iOS browser restrictions, web app barriers, and anti-competitive practices.| Cryptee Blog
Cryptee & OWA confront Apple at EU DMA workshop over iOS browser restrictions, web app barriers, and anti-competitive practices.| Cryptee Blog
Last week, OWA was invited to attend and give a short speech on our views of Apple’s compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) at a meeting with the Working Group on the Implementation of the Digital Markets Act.| Open Web Advocacy
Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend its power to extract rents, rather than innovate. Namely, selective exemption from tarrifs and an end to the spectre of pro-competition regulation and the threat of real browsers in the US, the EU, and around the world.| Infrequently Noted
» Regulation fun with lawyers and economists| brucelawson.co.uk
By subverting the voluntary nature of open standards, Apple has defanged them as tools that users might use against the totalising power of native apps in their digital lives. This high-modernist approach is antithetical to the foundational commitments of internet standards bodies and, over time, erode them.| Infrequently Noted
Readers may recall that Japan recently passed the Smartphone Act, officially the Bill on the Promotion of Competition for Specified Software Used in Smartphones. Among its most important reforms is a direct prohibition on Apple’s long-standing ban on third-party browser engines on iOS.| Open Web Advocacy
Apple is defying the EU’s Digital Markets Act by blocking rival browser engines on iOS, protecting Safari’s immense profits. The result is the company ruining the open web.| victorwynne.com
Apple & Google at the DMA compliance workshops, June 2025.| FormularSumo
» Up the kriek: Apple gets punchy in Brussels DMA compliance workshop| brucelawson.co.uk
